(January 21 - 23): "On this date, the Scarab Gong was rung, opening the gates of Ahn'Qiraj. Represent your faction by gathering supplies or by slaying Twilight and Qiraji forces. The winning faction gets to fly their banner next to the Scarab Gong for the rest of the year!"

This event commemorates one of the most memorable times in WoW: the server-wide effort to unlock the gates of Ahn'Qiraj.

One person on each server completed an elaborate questline to bang the gong and open the gates: you can read about all the requirements on the Veteran of the Shifting Sands page.

The first person on the server, as well as anyone who rang the gong 10 hours afterwards, was awarded the mount and title for completing .

As part of grinding out reputation in Silithus, players completed an elaborate series of summoning rituals among the Twilight Cultist Camps. Killing Twilight Cultists was needed for , which awarded reputation with Cenarion Circle when turned in. The summoning rituals were needed to summon progressively-harder Abyssals, culminating in World Bosses. During the Cataclysm revamp, these questlines were broken.

The Twilight Cultist disguises as well as some of the summoning items have made a reappearance in the 7.1.5 data: , , , , , , . Related Abyssals have also appeared: , , and

Some of the friendly NPCs who accepted materials in classic WoW (eg ) are back like and .

The event will pit the Alliance and Horde against each other to earn the most credit: whoever wins can fly their faction flag in Silithus for a year ().

(January 21 - February 4):

The Lunar Festival has a series of three new toys. Together with your friends, you can dress up as a dragon!

and cost 25 Coins of Ancestry each.

cost 10 Coins of Ancestry.

(January 31): "The mages of Azeroth like to relax, too. Hop into a portal at your local watering hole and join the Tavern Crawl!"

There are a number of portal spells like

As part of dressing up for a night on the town, one must wear a fancy hat in Azeroth: , , , ,

One of the spells uses the icon for so perhaps you'll have a chance to gain the appearance of one of many rare helms during this holiday.

Related NPCs include , , and

(February 7 - 12):

Several new items are available for : and

New consumables are on the way like to turn into a zombie by "accident" and to control a Crowne Company employee for a minute.

Defeating the Crowne Company is no longer for just max level players! Items like are ilvl 830 at 110, and scale down if you loot them at a lower level.

(February 19): "Today is the day that the Frayfeather hippogryphs hatch. Head to Frayfeather Highlands in Feralas to witness the spectacle firsthand!"

Hippogryphs are one of the most beloved species in WoW: they're found all over Elven areas and serve as flightpath mounts around Kalimdor.

Popular hippogryph mounts and pets include , , , and .

For this particular holiday, you'll be able to incubate an egg () and then get a to ride on your shoulder! You can even extend the duration of according to this spell: . The NPC may be related as well.

(April 5): "Today, the baby Winterfin murlocs of Borean Tundra complete their trip across the Westrift."

Murlocs are the unofficial mascot of WoW: they're everywhere you look from costumes () to fishing bobbers (). In Legion alone they're stuffed animals (), the subject of an achievement (), and a Suramar Egg toy ().

When April 5th comes around, you can complete the quest and help your band of murloc tadpole friends from out some more! Some of the new baby murlocs in the data include ,, and .

This quest will take you back to the Winterfin area in northwestern Borean Tundra. If you've skipped the quests in the area like , now is a fun time to do them and meet the tadpoles!

(April 17 - 24)

(battle pet ) costs 100 .

(April 23rd): "Today, the denizens of Azeroth and Draenor take some time to celebrate the hard work that their guards perform. /Salute a guard to show you care!"

transforms you into a guard when you salute them

The disguise has a buff which keeps track of the amount of you have slain.

(May 1-8):

No changes yet!

(May 8-10): "The skies are clear, the wind is calm... it's a great day for hot air ballooning. Hop into a hot air balloon, enjoy the scenery, and make some new friends!"

Balloons are everywhere in Azeroth and hot air balloons are particularly notable as a form of transportation added in Pandaria. You can take a relaxing hot air balloon ride in and .

Balloons are also non-battle companions like , , and .

Datamined spells point to taking a balloon ride (, , , ), summoning a balloon in different zones (, , , , , , ), and even booting an unsavory character from a balloon ().

Some NPCs point to balloon rides as well: , , ,

(May 27): "Today, the sporelings of Sporeggar in Zangarmarsh hold their annual mushroom festival. Help them keep the great Gshoo alive as long as possible!"

is a faction in Zangarmarsh added during the Burning Crusade. Complete quests in western Zangarmarsh to learn more about this faction.

Players both Alliance and Horde start out unfriendly with Sporeggar. We have full details how to gain reputation with them on the page.

Fun reputation rewards include , , , and .

We have datamined some spells that have mushroom icons or reference "," who sounds like the great "Gshoo" of the event: , ,

There are even some buffs: increases healing in Sporeggar by 2% and increases Sporeggar reputation by 15.

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Commento di percel

on 2016-11-17T20:16:35-06:00

Those Dragons Costume's LMAOAnd finnaly new items added to old event's.

Commento di Interest

on 2016-11-17T21:24:58-06:00

Nice to see we have a game plan for the many months to come. It might not be highly significant for player retention due to content (or a lack of it), but it certainly helps if only for the sake of perception.,

Commento di Purgatorywolf

There is some stuff in here we haven't heard yet. :) Like what he says about hunters @12:05 :D

Commento di AeronPeryton

on 2016-11-17T22:36:25-06:00

Looking forward to all the Human Centipede references during the Lunar Festival.

Commento di ganomex

on 2016-11-17T22:45:58-06:00

We're speculating that the battle pet Squirky could be tied to this event.

I doubt it as at Blizzcon they said there wouldn't be battle pets, mounts, or (permanent) toys tied to the micro holidays.

Commento di jaldaan

on 2016-11-17T22:48:20-06:00

Oh, great, we're getting cancer for Winter Veil this year.

Commento di SilverDragon234

on 2016-11-17T23:10:48-06:00

Shark! Shark! Shark shark! Watch out for Sharks!

Sorry, Perc. I could not resist!

Commento di Shashos

on 2016-11-18T00:09:56-06:00

So, so happy to see that they're finally allowing lower level players to enjoy some of the holiday activities that were previously for max level players only. :)

Those mini-holidays are a great idea and sound like a lot of fun.

Commento di Alfa

on 2016-11-18T03:06:16-06:00

I was worried for a second that they shortened the Valentine's day holiday lol but just a typo (7th-12th) instead of 7th-21st. :)

Commento di ladilock

on 2016-11-18T08:05:21-06:00

Those Dragons Costume's LMAOAnd finnaly new items added to old event's.

From what i remember, they update the events/items every expansion.

Commento di lankybrit

on 2016-11-18T10:34:57-06:00

No Frostfire Ridge Winter event this year? Or any replacement in Broken Isles?

Commento di natyarafdn

on 2016-11-18T10:49:06-06:00

OMG! "Defeating the Crowne Company is no longer for just max level players!" This is great!

Last Love is in the Air I ran the dungeon with 31 level 100 toons and no luck tho.

But now I have 6 lvl 110 toons and 55 lvl 100. Man, RNGod needs to help me this time.

Commento di reznor117

on 2016-11-18T12:34:16-06:00

I think this is a great idea! There are times when we players fall into the routine of the grind: running dailys, running dungeons & raids, running pvp & I certainly hope these mini-holidays helps us break outta that mold and do other fun things :)

Commento di IntendantS

This. A thousand times this. While I have been doing a lot of PvP for the artifact skin, I still think having Guarda e impara! as a requirement for the meta is too restrictive. Not everyone likes doing Battlegrounds, and this is the only thing keeping me from getting the È stato un lungo viaggio achievement.